Analysis for radical design

This paper examines a technique suitable for monitoring and analyzing systemic change in technology. Technological changes increasingly stem from the novel recombination of existing technologies. Changes are multitudinous. Therefore, new techniques are needed for analyzing technology architecture. A literature review of related work in the field of technology opportunities analysis is presented. We consider a possible, radically decentralized context for the conduct of future design. A case study of new technology architecture in the information technology domain is presented. An analytical method involving mining weighted graphs from technology archives is presented. The role of this new method in a context of distributed decision-making and design is presented.